Werner heads into today’s FA Cup semi-final against Crystal Palace as one of the Blues’ in-form players after scoring three times in our last two matches, getting a brace in the 6-0 victory over Southampton last weekend before scoring our third in a 3-2 second-leg win at Real Madrid on Tuesday evening.

That sudden burst of activity in front of goal has obviously pleased our head coach, who says Timo is making it very difficult to leave him out of the starting line-up again at Wembley, as well as showing how the fortunes of a goalscorer can change in an instant.

‘He does make it hard to leave him out now,’ Tuchel explained. ‘I’m impressed, he was very good in the last two games. Let’s be honest, these were the two games where he was much better than in any other game and he showed what he’s capable of.

‘Everybody thinks that we do the line-up, and of course we do, but in the end the players make it that you don’t leave them out. They do it in training or they do it in games. Of course the games are the opportunity for everybody, especially for strikers.

‘Things can be turned around in minutes, in moments. Whole careers can be upside down, in any direction, but you can always as a striker have the chance to put things into your favour, as a substitute or if you have the chance to perform from the beginning.

‘He did it in the last two games and that’s what we want from him and what he needs to show to take care that he plays.’

Our head coach also feels Werner’s rich vein of form can encourage another of our strikers, Romelu Lukaku, who is hoping to return after missing our last two matches through injury, and move on after being unable to take advantage of a good opportunity on his last appearance, in the first leg of our Champions League quarter-final against Real Madrid.

‘For sure. Romelu had a huge chance against Real Madrid and things can go so fast. Nobody knows what him scoring would have done to us, if he took his chance with a late header in the first leg.

‘What Timo’s done is exactly what he needs to do, of course. Wait, be patient, work hard and put the team first and be ready to help the team, because as a striker you can help within seconds and turn things around.’

We head to Wembley today looking to book a spot in the FA Cup final with a win over Crystal Palace, following disappointment on our last two trips to the national stadium, in last season’s FA Cup final loss to Leicester City and the Carabao Cup final defeat to Liverpool earlier this year.

However, Tuchel believes we learned some important lessons, from the first of those games in particular, given it came in the middle of a fierce scrap for a top-four finish in the Premier League and with a Champions League final looming large on the horizon.

‘We were playing for a lot,’ he said. ‘We were playing for the top four, we had the same game against Leicester straight away after in the league and we needed to win, because we came from a loss against Arsenal.

‘Maybe we needed this experience also to play the next final better in Wembley, which we did, but unfortunately we lost on penalties against Liverpool.

‘Now it’s a semi-final. We do things step by step, but it’s a big semi-final coming up and hopefully we can show the same development and the same hunger and determination that we showed in the last matches.’